People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.